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  The Green Ray 1986

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Apr 2022

  I can’t quite put my finger on what makes this film really wonderful. With a lot of films I love their endings have a feeling, but at that same time they draw you out, almost further a field, to like one last mystery. The ending to this one struck me as just about perfect.

  This movie has a deceptive simplicity that’s so lovely just to hang out with. I love how Delphine, in her conversations, smiles a little like a…

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  The Worst Person in the World 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 25 Feb 2022

  This a very good movie that kind of hurt a little bit, even though it was wonderful. It surprised me by taking a bigger bite out of its themes than I was expecting it to. I thought the film would stop where Annie Hall, or Frances Ha would, or even An Unmarried Woman. I thought it would be wistful a little, and hopeful. This went through that, and included that, to something, for me, sadder. I think someone else on…

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  Adoration 2019

  ★★★ Watched 03 Jan 2022

  Mild spoilers for the end.

  There’s a lot to like here including the actors and the dreamy 16 mm cinematography. And also the uncomfortable tension generated from the young woman’s ( is she like 13 in the film? And good age for Juliet?) mental illness. The young lovers on the run emerge from a train tunnel, side by side, and the image is shivery and distorted, but lovely,  like looking at shadows caught in amber, or like looking through very…

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